star trek > district 9 > avatar personally.

i loved me some flash

ahh well, to each their own.

and therein lies the problem, overlooking the flaws cos of its so pretty. imagine going out with a girl who's so f***ing hot she puts megan fox to shame, you would get so caught up in her beauty that you overlook her personality, her vacuous vapid absoolutely boring and predictable personality, her looks excite you at first, but as you get to know her better you find out that she has no deapth, no soul, doesnt shock, amuse or tingle ur senses as much as you initlly expected it to. the excitement ceases. you realise that she has nothing to offer besides a pretty face. you leave.

tis a pity that most guys think with their dicks and would stay and fall in love with the pretty face and not consider the personality

I disagree, but more with your choice of words than with your sentiments. I don't think the storyline was subpar at all. I think it was just formulaic and tired, but it was executed terrifically well. Give the same story (and the same CGI and 3D) to Roland Emmerich or Michael Bay and see what happens.

+1 I am not the only one to notice this similarity.

Who said it was because of "the whim of one man"? It was because, as Giovanni Ribisi said, the little grey rock that sells for $20 million a kilo.

Never explained what that unobtanium was capable of which made it so valuable.

one of the many unexplained/unshown plots in the movie.

Watch Avatar again and you'll see the same with Jack f***ing Sew Leeeeeeeee.

Also, a movie about a bunch of people fighting over a material called unobtainum cannot be taken seriously.

This post has been edited by kobe24bryant: Dec 20 2009, 06:36 PM

Funny how u guys arguing which movie is better as though you are the creator of the movie and if it sucks ,it means so much to you...

So as paying cinema-goers we're not allowed to have an opinion?

there are 24 hours day, and for some of em we have nbtd, thus we fill it with pointless arguments over the internet discussing our passions, giving our opinions(cos the internet is probably the only venue where people give a shit bout a persons opinions nowadays) and generally talking cock.

what i dont get is why people like you loooooooooove to call us out using "arguing as if ur the creator and it means so much to you" , we get it, we're just the end consumer, the director will never know or give a shit about what we think and how we feel would have no significance whatsoever on his/her life. so yeah, if youre not gonna join in and are just gonna be a buzzkill, eff off ><"

Ebert just gave Avatar the Special Jury prize or it's the 11th best mainstream picture of 2009.

For the full list, head over to ebert's site.

ok, sorry, from now on ppl shouldnt compare, give opinion, reviews on movie.

Newspaper should stop writing reviews!

ign and gamespot should stop issueing reviews about games.

Critics should leave their job.

everybody who watched a movie must Shuddap when they come out, and make sure to keep their mouth sealed.

Talk about hak bersuara.

oh and Lowyat forum should close down cause everything here is base on opinion, and since we are not the creator, we shouldnt give opinion.

U should write that opinion of yours too, since u werent the creator of opinions.

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Added on December 20, 2009, 7:41 pm8.9 on IMBD!

Awesome!

This post has been edited by BelowAverage: Dec 20 2009, 07:41 PM

wow, i cnt believe its getting so many good reviews, maybe i shouldnt have watched it after not sleeping for 24 hours, and i went for a jog before that.....

feck, now i gotta watch it again, fresh faced this time ><"

ouh and check out blunty3000's review of avatar on youtube, wesome dude XD he agrees that its not all that good cos of the story

Cut and paste, modified and upgraded 3D movie.. nothing so special about it.

Damn, what's that term Hitchcock used. I got a memory block right now.

EDIT: McGuffin!

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Dec 20 2009, 08:12 PM

Doesn't mean its origin/purpose need not be explained.

That's the definition of a McGuffin. If you are really irritated by the lack of explanation then I can see how you could not fully enjoy the movie. Its use is absolutely not essential to the story at all. The point is, once man finds something valuable and untouched he will plunder it all by any means necessary, and especially if the enemy is technically-inferior. I'm 100% certain Cameron deliberately left it out of the movie!

went to watch avatar yesterday (normal version). quite cool cgi but lots of deja vu in story line and scene (the last samurai + matrix mostly). i still think that its not worth my 10ringgit imo

Watched Avatar (not 3D) in 1utama.

There were no english subtitles, when talking in alien language.

Did other cinemas have same problem?

For me

Storywise
D9>Basterds>Avatar>Star Trek

"Fun factor" wise
Basterds>Star Trek>Avatar>D9

Entertainment factor
Avatar>Basterds>D9>Star Trek

Overall cinema experience
Avatar>D9>Star Trek>Basterds

For me la. =D

The effects are still part of the movie just as much as the story or action or music.

If the movie is a chicken chop, the story would be a chicken while the effects would be the sauce.

Transformers would be like having a chicken chop with eatable sauce and rotten chicken.

Avatar is like a chicken chop with normal chicken and ambrosiac sauce. The storyline, acting and dialogue are not great, but they're still decent enough and better than most other movies out there.

This post has been edited by crashoverride: Dec 20 2009, 09:34 PM